Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:10:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: 1.5.3 - can't start cron nor apache service - operation not permitted In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030912161521.029f1398@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: References: <20030912074359.GB9981@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20030912074359.GB9981@cygbert.vinschen.de> <5.1.0.14.0.20030912161521.029f1398@127.0.0.1> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Larry Hall wrote: > At 11:25 AM 9/12/2003, Andrew DeFaria you wrote: > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:12:43PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> > >>>Since upgrading to 1.5.3 I cannot start cron or apache as services. They > >>>were added as follows: > >>>[...] > >>>cron : PID 3856 : starting service `cron' failed: execv: 1, Operation > >>>not permitted > >>>[...] > >> > >>I've just tested it and it still works for me. Could you check the permissions on cygwin1.dll? Is system not permitted to read/executethe DLL perhaps? > > > >Interesting: > > > >$ ll /bin/cygwin1.dll > >-rwxr-x---+ 1 Andrew Users 967522 Sep 1 10:16 /bin/cygwin1.dll* > >$ chmod +x /bin/cygwin1.dll > >$ ll /bin/cygwin1.dll > >-rwxr-x--x+ 1 Andrew Users 967522 Sep 1 10:16 /bin/cygwin1.dll* > >$ net start cron > >The Cygwin cron service is starting. > >The Cygwin cron service could not be started. > > > >The service did not report an error. > > > >More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534. > > > >Didn't help. Wonder why many of the files under /bin were owned by the group Users and others set to the group DeFaria? > > > My WAG is you've run setup.exe more than once to install something and > your ID had different group permissions on some of these rounds. > > > >And what does that "+" at the end of the permmissions string mean? > > > Do you google? > > > > > >Anyways I did a: > > > >$ chmod 755 /bin/* > >$ chgrp DeFaria /bin/* > > > >Didn't help. > > > >I did get the following one time: > > > >Event Type: Information > >Event Source: /usr/sbin/cron > >Event Category: None > >Event ID: 0 > >Date: 9/12/2003 > >Time: 7:52:46 AM > >User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM > >Computer: STARBASE > >Description: > >The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron : PID 4036 : (CRON) STAT FAILED (/etc/cron.d). > > > >Interesting because I don't have an /etc/cron.d. Creating it fixed my problem! Hmmm... Why didn't the post install create this? I have no idea. But I'm glad it's now working. > > > The post install doesn't need to create it. It's part of the cron package. > > > Looks like you had a problem installing the 'cron' package for some reason. > Try again, if required. Try "cygcheck -cv cron". Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/